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"Too much deadwood doing too little work and too few good...

September 15, 1993

"Too much deadwood doing too little work and too few good staff members doing too much." -Dick Thornburgh, the former U.S. attorney general, on the "deadwood," "featherbedding" and general waste he found in the United Nations during a one-year study of how the UN works.

FLORIDA ADVERTISING SLOGANS SUSPENDED WHEN THEY BACKFIRED BECAUSE OF CRIMES AGAINST TOURISTS: "One Florida, Many Faces"; "The Rules Are Different Here"; and "See It Like a Native."

"We will wait for you."

-Voice on a crude "NOlympic" video, threatening violence against any Berlin Olympics.

"I think South Dakota has had a unique ability to shoot itself in the foot, but tonight they fired both barrels."